Torres and Sanchez, the hatchet man and the enforcer. Who are they being the bad guys for?
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How can Stan Rounds tell the Board and community that they are cutting staff, there will be no range changes, etc, etc, when he is giving range changes to Administrators NOW and those range changes result in large salary increases. Is it a way to HIDE the fact that the administrators are getting raises? You do it now so it doesn't show up in the budget maybe? These are administrators that aren't the "interim" people. I thought you had to have an increase in duties to get a mid-year salary increase or does LCPS not follow that state regulation? Rounds seems to be just like all the others. What he says in public has little relation to what he is doing behind the scenes.
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Blogger Comment: This image of a memo was submitted anonymously. I hesitate to post it. You can be the judge of whether it is a fabrication or real.
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The idiots ARE running the asylum! We are going to use MAP software district wide for our assessments. We are cutting teachers because we are broke, yet we can pay an outrageous price for a useless assessment, and the director of Instructional Technology doesn't have the knowledge about a computer that my fifth grader has.
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As a parent, I'm worried about the bitterness shown by (what seems like) just a few burnt out staff members. Seek therapy. Have a summer. Get a new job. My children need a strong education- and the whole "plt" witch hunt and griping about individuals on your staff is not for the good of our children. This district has serious issues (continuity, leadership, instruction, testing, real world skills)and we need to encourage and support the dedicated and successful practices and people rather than read from haggard school-marms who just want to fire everybody but themselves!
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I would like to thank all the LCPS teachers my children had over the years. Both have completed Master Degree programs. I especially want to thank the AES Facilitators. Without them, I think my youngest would have slipped through the cracks. Instead, she graduated a year early, and just completed her Masters degree at the tender age of 22. Thanks again - You're great!
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So much finger pointing, so few facts!!!
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You might hate your PLT, but we actually like and value ours. She has really helped the teachers who want her help. The teachers in my school that don't want her help are the ones who look for the easy way out of everything. They just want to do what is easiest for them, not what is best for the students.
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The Las Cruces Public Schools will never change, because the people won't stand up and demand competence downtown. As a result, we have these people working in a bubble, making decisions as benevolent lords of all, even though they're ill conceived and horrible in the first place. Here's what we have to look forward to next year:- 140+ "temporary" positions possibly gone, even though these are dedicated professionals.- A district wide response to intervention that borders on insane. There is NO RESEARCH to support us doing something so drastic.- A continued focus on Nancy Fetzer's writing and reading systems, which involve little innovation beyond quirky 'total physical response' activities, which I could have found (and did find) on the internet for free in about 10 minutes (who knows how much we pay Fetzer for her workshops).
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At one time a teacher had to be certified in Early Childhood Educ. in order to teach Kindergarten in Las Cruces. Is this still true? Am I the only one who feels that all of the Reading/Writing testing that is being done on Kindergarten children is inappropriate? What has happened to the concept of developmentally appropriate practice. Sure, there needs to be some testing done to find out what these 5 years old know when they come to school and then again at every report card period to check their progress. This testing needs to be about the basics, like being able to recognize all the alphabet letters and/or sounds, not just a few like they have to do when we give the DIBEL Test. The "current" kindergarten curriculum is what used to be the "regular" first grade curriculum. All of this one on one testing is wrong for Kindergarten. It takes entirely too much time out of day to day learning for a teacher to sit in a corner or outside the classroom door and test each child individually. I don't want to tell you what the rest of the class might be doing, because it probably isn't very educational. Please, look into this and do what is right for the children and let kindergarten once again be a place to learn, socialize and have fun without all the stress of TEST, TEST, TEST!
posted by LCPS1 @ 6:22 AM
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Zia MS Rocks. With all the turmoil we have been through this past year, we still found a way to pull together and make the best of it. We even were able to have an end of year function, totally funded by staff members and way after contract hours ended, and we all realized that despite all the moaning and groaning from everyone else, we like our job and we will continue to do our job to the best of our ability. We realized that we are here for the kids and we put them first every day. I wish everybody else in the district could do the same.
After four nightmarish years of central office and administrative abuse, and with faculty and staff morale at the lowest levels ever, now we smugly announce at the school board meeting that we will tell all employees who were hired after the start of school that they may not have a job. These are people who were hired late because another employee was sick, left suddenly, that there was a need for a new position due to enrollment increase, or due to poor planning by the same people who are now making the cuts. To increase morale of the teaching staff and to lend some credibility to a bloated administration which protects itself first, reduce central office staffing. Show the real employees of the district that you will put your money where your mouth is. Also, look at all the new non-teaching positions created in the past four years and phase THOSE out. Cutting the so-called "temporary" positions is an easy-way-out for human resources to reduce staffing, but doesn't address the real problem of paying people to do non-direct instruction jobs. In good times, we could create all these new non-teaching positions AND have enough staffing for teachers and counselors. In tough times, cut the fluff. There's a lot of fluff in that 93% figure quoted at the board meeting, and it is not due to "temp" teaching positions.
I have never heard so much complaining in my life. If you are so unhappy move on or do something constructive about it. Life is not fair and you can't make everyone happy. If there anyone out there happy? Maybe we need to split LCPS
district make it smaller and then maybe it would be easier to take care of
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